Tessa Wong BBC News, Asia Digital Reporter Reuters The Liaoning, seen here in a 2018 file photo, is one of two Chinese aircraft carriers taking part in the drill A Chinese naval drill near Japan has sparked concern from Tokyo, which in recent days lodged a protest with Beijing and made the rare decision to...
A bomb thought to be an old Navy shell has been detonated on a beach in north Devon. Devon and Cornwall Police said it had been called to Bidna Yard shortly after 10:10 BST on Wednesday where officers put a cordon in place and helped a small number of residents evacuate. A spokesperson for the...
Israeli navy ships have struck targets in the port city of Hudaydah in Houthi-controlled Yemen. The Israeli military said in a statement the strikes were carried out in response to Houthi missiles targeting Israel and were aimed at stopping the use of the port for “military purposes”. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Images...
Getty Images Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office in California The US Navy plans to remove the name of gay rights leader and Navy veteran Harvey Milk from one of its ships, and may change the titles of other vessels honouring civil rights leaders. The plans were outlined in...
Royal Navy The 210 men and women in HMS Lancaster’s crew found 80 packages A Royal Navy warship has swooped in on a vessel which was carrying £30m worth of illegal drugs. HMS Lancaster, which is based in Portsmouth when not on active service, seized the one and a half tonne load of narcotics while...
Royal Navy The three-week-old kittens had not yet been weaned Five kittens heard crying for help under a shipping container in Bahrain have been saved by Royal Navy sailors. Personnel serving at the UK Naval Support Facility, which supports the Portsmouth-based HMS Lancaster, found the three-week-old kittens, which had not been weaned, after their mother...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News MARCO ANTONIO PEREZ/AFP via Getty Images) Mexicans are mourning the death of two young Navy cadets who were killed on Saturday when the training tall ship ARM Cuauhtémoc crashed into Brooklyn Bridge. América Sánchez, 20, and 23-year-old Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos were among the 277 crew members on board the Mexican...
Authorities in New York are investigating the site where a Mexican sailing ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge for clues about how the fatal collision occurred. Two people on board were killed and at least 19 others were injured when the Mexican Navy training ship crashed into the bridge on Saturday night. Police said early investigations...
A huge Mexican Navy training ship has been damaged after crashing into New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge during a festive visit to the US. Footage has emerged showing towering masts of the Cuauhtémoc clipping the bridge as the sailing vessel was passing under the famous structure on Saturday evening. Parts of the masts reportedly fell...
The Financial Times weekend edition says US President Donald Trump has signalled “openness to cutting tariffs on China”, ahead of upcoming talks. In a Truth Social post, Trump suggests that the US could almost halve the tariffs on Chinese goods, which currently stands at 145%. The head of public policy for investment management firm Pimco...
Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi PTI Himanshi Narwal (left) bid an emotional farewell to her husband, who was killed in the Pahalgam attack Two weeks ago, the photograph of a woman sitting motionless beside her husband’s body went viral across Indian social media. It captured a moment of unspeakable grief – one that came to...
A Peruvian navy vessel has collided with an oil platform in the Amazon River, killing at least two people and leaving one missing. The collision happened in the early hours of Friday morning at the junction of the Napo and Amazon rivers, causing “severe damage”, Peru’s defence ministry said. Thirty crew members were rescued from...
Royal Navy ships based in Plymouth and Portsmouth were deployed to track Russian warships through British waters this week, a navy spokesperson has said. Plymouth-based HMS St Albans, a Type-23 frigate, monitored the Admiral Golovoko as it sailed east through the English Channel and launched a Merlin helicopter to gather information from the air. Portsmouth-based...